Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...

Putting cover on umiak. After they are sewn together using special waterproof stitch, men will stretch skin cover across wood frame and lash them to it. This unusually large boat requires 7-8 skins. Five women work outside, standing. Now about ten...

Title from caption. Photograph of two young men identified as Johnnie Fred and Esaias George (standing). Narrative in photo album reads:"Here are Johnnie Fred & Esaias George (standing). Esaias was our favorite boy. He came to school for me...

Title from verso.Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads:"This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...

(2:30 min.) (03 of 08)3. Outside [non-Alaskan] control Still thinks at time of interview that becoming a commonwealth would have been better. Sees a major problem with control in Washington instead of in the states, and the same thing for...

(4:26 min.) (19 of 28)19. Women pilots Virginia wanted corrections made on a display at the airport, adding mention of early women pilots in Alaska. Virginia speaks of things absent in her life and how becoming a Jehovah's Witness helped.

Title by indexer. Caption reads: "'Slim' Bragg shown with Wolves and Tim Twitchell Trapper. Bragg Guided and Trapped Many Years in the Talkeetna and Other Areas Before Becoming a Game Warden." The word "Unknown" is scratched out, and "Tim...

Title from cataloger.Members of the Billiard Club are seen here showing off their bald heads. In 1929 several dorm residents decided to form a unique club by becoming human billiard balls. Each member got a "billiard ball" haircut and had a red...

Brian Okonek talks about his introduction to outdoor activities and involvement in high school mountaineering club, exploring the Talkeetna area, meeting Dave Johnston, his trip in the Alaska Range, relationship with his dad and hopes for a...

Title taken from front. View of Haines, Alaska and Fort William H. Seward (later called Port Chilkoot), with ship in harbor. From front: "WRCO." Publisher's number 5612. From verso: "Haines and Fort W.H. Seward. Construc[tion on] Fort Wm. H....

Title taken from verso. Group of people with snowmachines and sleds watching men in boat at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. April 1969. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".

Blanche Louise Preston McSmith represented Anchorage in the House of Representatives during the second session of the First Alaska Legislature in 1960. Mrs. McSmith was appointed by then-Governor William Egan in January of 1960 to fill out the...